Academicia: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

ACADEMICIA 
linguistic foundations become more and more complex over time. Over time, the original form 
and meaning of the names become unclear, which leads to the appearance of various legends, 
assumptions among the population as their etymology. Boburnoma also contains many 
commentaries on the etymology of names. For example, in the commentary on the origin of the 
oronim Kohi Safid ―white mountain‖ the following feature is traced: ―Nine rivers will come out 
of this mountain, and the snow of this mountain will never melt, that's why they call Kohi Safid‖ 
[3.190].
About the origin of Khodarvesh also gives the following explanation: They say that some 
dervishes in this steppe met a strong wind, could not find each other and died, saying ―Ho, 
dervish‖, ―Ho, dervish‖. Since then their name has been Khodarvesh ‖ [3. 62]. In general, some 
of the explanations given by Babur are close to a scientific basis, while others do not have this 
feature and are based only on popular assumptions. In general, some of Babur's explanations are 
close to scientific substantiation, while others do not have this feature and are based only on folk 
etymology. 
In addition to his native language, Babur was fluent in Arabic, Persian-Tajik and Hindi. 
Therefore, when he writes about a certain word, take into account its specific sound system, their 
differences from the Uzbek sound system, as well as the correspondence of each language to 
interdialective phonetic laws. In particular, ―these mountain people are called Kas. I remembered 
that the people of India pronounce "shin" as "sin" (here the sound "sh" is pronounced like "s"). 
Because the great city on this mountain is Kashmir, and on this mountain you cannot hear a 
single city except Kashmir. In this sense, it is called Kashmir. The Indians call this mountain 
Savo lac parbat. In Hindi, ―savo‖ is a quarter, ―lak‖ is one hundred thousand, ―parbat‖ is a 
mountain, that is, rub and one hundred thousand mountains, one hundred twenty-five thousand 
mountains. The snow on these mountains does not melt, and in some provinces of India, such as 
Lohur, Sihrind and Sanbaldin, the snow on this mountain appears white. In Kabul this mountain 
is called the Hindu Kush ‖[BN.250]. 
In his work, Babur also gave information about the mountains of India. In particular, he writes: 
―India also has mountains. Including there is a mountain going from north to south. The origin of 
this mountain is in the palace of King Firuz, called Jahannamo in Delhi province, which was 
located on a rocky mountain. 
CONCLUSION 
In conclusion, we can say that the work of "Boburnom" is an important source in the study of 
orographic terms and oronyms belonging to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India. 
Orographic words and terms are inherently positive and negative landforms and refer to Turkic, 
Iranian (Persian-Tajik, Pashto), Hindi and Urdu.